Elena Parina
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elena Parina is involved.
Article
2022 Chapter 2. Methodology at work: Semantic fields sharp and blunt The Typology of Physical Qualities, Rakhilina, Ekaterina, Tatiana Reznikova and Daria Ryzhova (eds.), pp. 29–56 | Chapter
The chapter illustrates the frame-based methodology of lexical typological analysis through the comparison of the qualities sharp and blunt in 21 languages. We show that these qualities tend to be asymmetrical, with bluntness being negatively defined through sharpness. The two main oppositions… read more